Every man's memory is his private literature. - Aldous Huxley

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

- Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender

Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges. - Dante G. Roque

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. - Saul Bellow